After reading some Vader and Luke father son bonding fics, With Great Power is awesome. I'm honestly kinda bummed that I haven't yet found a good fix where vader totally dumps the galaxy in lake's lap. As much trouble and trauma as izuku had with one relatively speaking small country... am curious if online community's in other countries didn't form up like "say, do you think he could come take over our country and fix things?" *cough* America *cough*
‘Thank you! I’m really glad you enjoyed my story.
Funny you should mention Luke and Vader bonding fics in this context - I’m pretty sure that there’s one in particular that subconsciously contributed to the idea for With Great Power. It’s called Welcome to the Club by Malicean. While Vader doesn’t quite dump the galaxy in Luke’s lap, you might find a few parallels in terms of how he handles the galaxy and making peace with the Rebel Alliance. Plus, it involves Luke and Vader working together, which is awesome.
Back to WGP. I'm sure it comes as a surprise to exactly no one that Izuku has meme status in a decent number of other countries. It’s anyone’s guess how much any of that was facilitated by All for One - I’d say if at all, but his stealth PR campaign is hardly limited to national borders. Just look at Rick. He only has so much time, though, and a cute 19-year-old hero who got a country dumped in his lap by a supervillain is definitely meme-worthy in his own right, particularly by countries who can enjoy the hilarity with a level of distance from more serious effects. And, of course, “I, for one, welcome our Supreme Overlord” is a highly applicable meme that absolutely sees plenty of use.
America’s response might be a bit mixed. Of course, not everyone is nearly as negative as the American UN representative, but as an American myself, we’re rather... bad at keeping up with the rest of the world’s politics, and so apart from the meme potential, the more significant and controversial changes that Izuku introduces are unfortunately filtered out before the majority of Americans find out about them. The pockets of the internet in which Izuku’s popularity involves half-joking comments about “say, think Japan could send him over when they’re done?” are mostly areas populated by more than just Americans. But within those pockets, there are definitely a lot of people who would genuinely love for Izuku to happen to their own country. Or so they say.
See, the part immediately preceding Izuku taking over, involving the violent overthrow which cleared the way for all those changes? Yeah, that one they’re a lot less enthusiastic about. And Izuku wouldn’t have been nearly so successful at introducing his changes without the unique lack of resistance he faced from an existing government. Thankfully for everyone, All for One knows he would be murdered in every way possible if he got it into his head to hand Izuku another country with a government conveniently removed and ready for upgrading; otherwise, the internet giving him these ideas might be really, really bad.